Recently, Harley-Davidson has seen a nice surge in success. Several new patents have been filed for a smaller Pan Americanino, and their electric brand LiveWire has gone public.
As Harley will be leaving India's market in 2020, it stands to reason that their next step would be a partnership with a multinational motorcycle and scooter manufacturer.
The result of this collaboration will be a middleweight machine capable of anything between 350cc and 800cc; quite the disparity in figures, but one that will make a big splash in India.
The deal is of arguably greater significance to Hero than Harley-Davidson's role in this new American-Indian partnership, according to a Bennetts report.
Despite being the third largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world - and the largest among many Indian giants - Hero has been left behind in terms of western-based partnerships compared to Bajaj (Triumph and KTM) and TVS (BMW), while competing against Japanese giants Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki for market share.
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